School: Scattery Island
- Location:
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Cholgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 099
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- About sixty years ago Sinon Scanlon, my grandfather piloted a ship up the Shannon as far as Beigh-Castle. He left the ship at that spot and from there walked to Askeaton. His object in doing so was to get a "lift" as far as Limerick and so home by train. He was not very long on the road when a man on a common horse overtook him. Following the car was an untrained foal. My grandfather asked the man for a seat and he, joking him told him to mount the foal. My grandfather did so much to the astonishment of the man,(continues on next page)
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- Áine Ní Mhaolacháin
- Gender
- Female
